Cadsoft EagleCad Tutorial Lesson 9

[adampnewsome]

Watched all your tutorials so far and I've learned a lot! Thanks so much :)

[jormakeijoveijo]

Hi Jason! Thanks for tutorial, it was very helpful. Just was wondering how to do that copper pouring -thing... :)

[NoEntiendesLaOnda1]

Dude you are Fucking Awsome man..

You realy helped me out big time,

i Can't wait to make my own desing tomorrow in class :D

[TheSliekaStyle]

Is it possible to auto route all the traces on one side?

[milanjayatilaka]

Hello! Thanks for the video series, it really helps! This is a really n00b question, but what purpose do the ground planes serve and if we wanted to, could we do without them? I mean, if one were making a single sided PCB, for example. Thanks again!

[MusicAddictedGr]

hello! this is a very good tutorial and it helped me very much. but a have a question... after the autorouting all the pads are thinner than those which you placed manualy.

how can i change the width of of the tabs when i use autorouter?

thx

[cozzbp]

These videos are amazing. Thank you so much.

[TheMrHwarang]

I would like to thank you for making these videos, they have helped me to make many circuit boards. Although i would like to give you a word of advice, make your videos shorter, all of your information is good, but i feel that you are also including too much unneeded information as well. I hope that you will consider this to improve your videos. Thank you.

[skierplaterandy]

only part way in, this is an awesome series so far. just this far in is good enough to do a lot.

[TheMrgeekmania]

Lesson 10 has more views than 8!

[GrahamIT]

Brilliant, I always wondered how that was done.

Many thanks for all your time and effort, I'm still having problems designing my own parts libraries though.

[DanFrederiksen]

that was very helpful. exactly what I was looking for, how to make ground planes in eagle. you named it GND, I take it you named some wires GND too? and that's how it made the connection?

it looks like the connection is just little crosses going into some of the pads rather than fully connected. does it really do it that way or just show it that way?

[mosq1to]

Thx helped alot :D

[Matik1717]

Hello all,

I dont understand something in this video, please help me.

Red traces are used for top of a board and blue trases are used for bottom of a board.

So why when 'auto' has been pressed on this video red trases appeared ?

There were not any surface mounted devices (SMD).

Help please !! :)

[raidenms]

@Matik1717 it's just a configuration. you can set it to draw only bottom traces.

[rainbowsalads]

@Matik1717 yes this is a double sided board . the top of the board is used to route traces also, the software uses the pins of the components as "vias" to get the signal onto the top and then route the trace to the place it needs to go more efficiently. If this was a 4 layer board ( 4 layers sandwiched together) the software would use those layers also. all soldering is usually done on the bottom, but the traces can be on any layer.

[hansvledder]

Jason,

Thanks again. Personally I found drawing the ground plane first and do routing later to be much easier. After drawing the ground plane everything that needs to be grounded is grouned, allowing me to change my 2 layer design into a single layer design.

Cheers,

Hans

[Elamin008]

thank you sir , you helping me to learn eagle pcb so good , really thank you

[renekenshin6573]

Sir Jason thank you very much for this great and wonderful tutorial you posted here, it really helps newbies like me to fabricate our own pcb's. I thought i would never learn to use pcb software tools like this one because i tried others already but it was too complicated for me, especially without a video tutorial like yours. Again thank you very much, your one of the best things that happen on Youtube :)

[GellerLabs]

Thank you for taking the time to put together this series of tutorials. Many Thanks! -Joe

[fullonrugby]

Hey thanks a bunch, you're a champion. These videos are a lot better than the painful tutorial pdf that comes with the software.

[nessatse]

Setting the grid to 7mil is just plain stupid. The board house 7mil is manufacturing limits, setting your grid to this value is pointless. Your grid should be set up according to you component pin spacing, trace width etc. In most through hole boards, a grid of 25 mil would usually be ok. The 7mil should be incorporated in your DRC settings

[nessatse]

You have just shown why one should *never* use an autorouter. You manages to turn a braindead single sided design into a double sided one. No serious designer would ever consider using an autorouter.

[David01132]

question,

after the auto route, there were overlapping traces at C1. That cant be good?

[coolboarder44]

Oh, that trace that was overlapping (the red trace that was crossing the blue trace) was actually crossing on the TOP of the board, while the initial blue trace that was routed by hand was placed on the bottom.

[David01132]

ok but what if I just want traces on the bottom?

[coolboarder44]

Not sure off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that you can set up those parameters in the autorouter menus. I'm not on my PC with eagle, but click through the tabs in the autorouter window. There should be an option there for "rout traces on x layer only" or something.

[recover89]

@David01132 It's on the other side of the PCB, so it's alright. Blue wires = back side. Red wire = top side.

[Yodarius]

@David01132

The red trace is at the top side of the board while blue trace is on the bottom side. So no actual connection.

[duubtuub]

Jason,

"Lesson 10! Lesson 10!..." ;^)

Serious question: MY 5.6.0 copy of Eagle CAD does NOT have the same Library yours does!

No Resistor subfolder under resistors, nor Diode subfolder under diodes. And no Resistor-US nor Diode-US either.

Could you please touch on how to assemble all the libraries? (I think I noticed you have SparkFun's. Worth a mention of them and your other faves in passing?)

Thanks for a Great Gift to the world! (and me here in Wis Con sin.

DT

[ExplosiveBoy93]

As I first saw Eagle, I thought ´How do those guys do this?` No I`m close to know it.

Thank You.

[renzo55134]

I write from South America to congratulate you on your excellent work on the tutorial

RENZO

[JurriaanPetersen]

Thanks man this is helping me allot! I would like to see the 10th part to. Could you also show how you can make this PCB work with a single layer?

[doublee05]

Thanks Jason. The tutorial is great. I use PADS and Altium at work, but wanted a hobby type of program for home for my side stuff. Could you go over how to create your own parts in a library? Also, will you be going into masks and silk? Thanks! DJW

[MIX08TLI]

We would like 10th part

:D

[MIX08TLI]

Really like all these tutorials and we all like 10th part ;D

i would like a video about 3D views but maybe later eh?

[GeorgeGraves]

Can't wait for the next one - very good. I was putting of learning eagle, and your videos got me up and going in one night. Now - am I brave enough to send a off to be made? Or are you going to cover that part of the gerber files too? If so I'll gladly WAIT!!!

Thanks again.

[rpcelectronics]

@GeorgeGraves Either the last or next to last video will include running the Gerber CAM.

[kre8mag]

Excellent - very well presented

[DHOMI84]

awesome.. i always thought that eagle is a difficult program to learn, however, you made look like a piece of cake..

thanks a lot

[Kinderrs]

isn't leasson 10 ready yet? 10x 4 all

[MDMstudio]

I'm a programmer, and a noob circuit fanatic, thanks for the tutorials on Eagle. They are quite helpful! Any chances of you just doing some electronic tutorials some time? Thanks for your time and help!